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February 1, 2004
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A program made by Britain's BBC says North Korea is killing political
prisoners in experimental gas chambers and testing new chemical weapons on
women and
children.
Titled "Access to Evil" and being aired on Sunday, the program features an
official North Korean document that says political prisoners are used to test
new chemical weapons.
In a statement, the BBC said the documentary included comments by Kwon Hyuk,
a new name given to a former military attache at the North Korean embassy in
Beijing and chief of management at Prison Camp 22.
Using a drawing, he describes a gas chamber and the victims he says he saw at
the prison in the northeast of the secretive communist state, near the
Russian border.
"I witnessed a whole family being tested on suffocating gas and dying in the
gas chamber. The parents, son and a daughter. The parents were vomiting and
dying, but till the very last moment they tried to save kids by doing
mouth-to-mouth breathing," he said.
"Normally, a family sticks together (in the gas chamber) ... and individual
prisoners stand separately around the corners. Scientists observe the entire
process from above, through the glass."
Asked how he felt about the children, he said: "It would be a total lie for
me to say I felt sympathetic about the children dying such a painful death.
Under the society and the regime I was in at the time, I only felt that they
were
the enemies. So I felt no sympathy or pity for them at all."
The documentary for the BBC's "This World" series was to be broadcast at 9pm
(0800 AEDT).
Olenka Frenkiel 
www.thenewsturmer.com
North Korean officials in London were unavailable to comment. BBC journalist
Olenka Frenkiel told Reuters she had three independent confirmations that Kwon
Hyuk was genuine.
The human rights group Amnesty International said it had been unable to
confirm previous reports of such testing.
"We have heard of these allegations but we cannot confirm them," a
spokeswoman said.
North Korea - described by US President George W Bush as part of an "axis of
evil" because of a nuclear weapons program and authoritarian system - has
denied accusations of human rights abuses.
A top-secret North Korean document also says political prisoners are used for
"human biological experimentation and for production of biological weapons",
the BBC said.
It interviews a person said to be a former prisoner in North Korea who had
been ordered to poison others.
"An officer ordered me to select 50 healthy female prisoners. One of the
guards handed me a basket full of soaked cabbage, told me not to eat it but to
give it to the 50 women," Sun Ok Lee said, according to the BBC statement.
"All who ate the cabbage leaves started violently vomiting blood and
screaming with pain. It was hell. In less than 20 minutes, they were quite
dead."
Frenkiel said she had also seen other official North Korean documents, one of
which referred to the transfer of a prisoner "for the purpose of human
experimentation of liquid gas for chemical weapons" in February 2002.
Meanwhile, North Korea claimed the US military conducted at least 190 spy
flights against the communist state in January, accusing Washington of mapping
out a sudden attack.
North Korea's official news agency KCNA said yesterday that U-2, RC-135 and
other reconnaissance planes of the US military were used for "round-the-clock"
operations.
"Such aerial espionage clear shows the US imperialists' black-hearted design
to mount a sudden pre-emptive attack on the DPRK anytime as they did to seize
Iraq and Afghanistan," KCNA said. DPRK stands for Democratic People's Republic
or Korea, or North Korea.
North Korea regularly makes such accusations. The US military does not
comment on North Korean claims on spy flights, although it acknowledges
monitoring
North Korean military activity.
The United States keeps 37,000 American troops in South Korea - a legacy of
the 1950-53 Korean War.
Efforts are under way to continue international talks on North Korea's
nuclear weapons program. The six-nation negotiations comprise the United
States,
Russia, China, Japan and the two Koreas. A first round ended in August with
little progress made.
Reuters, AP
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